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- RR Y as E W BY No. 891,843. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY NASH LEE, OF EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY LAWRENCE, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

SEWING-MACHIN E Application filed June 15, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY NASH LEE, residing at 5 Reservoir Retreat, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, coach-builder, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides a simple and effective attachment applicable to all sewing-machines for folding and stitching bands or the like to garments.

The attachment is designed to be readily secured to the guide foot bar, through which the needle works, and is easily adjusted to give any desired width of band within the capacity of the attachment.

The attachment consists of a suitable guide preferably having its opening or way, taper in cross section. This guide is arranged horizontally of themachine, just above the bed on which the cloth or like to be stitched is laid, with the widest part of its opening toward the direction from which the cloth is fed into the machine. In the guide are arranged sliding edge guides, preferably working in slots in the guide and having thumb screws for securing them at different points along the guide. These edge guides are set to pass only the desired width of the band.

The guide is carried by a cranked bar from the guide foot of the machine. For this purpose the crank bar is provided with a slot in which the tail of a clip may slide and be secured at any point. The clip may be of any suitable form, such as having one hinged or detachable part, and two clamping screws for binding this part against the other part of the bar. The slot in the crank bar enables the attachment to be attached to different machines and regulated to suit the requirements on each.

In the case of ordinary machines, bands to be stitched to a garment have first tobe folded by hand, then the folds have to be secured by.

tacking before they can be stitched by the machine to the garment. I/Vith this attachment in use the front edges of the band are first folded and slipped through the guide, then the guide is pushed along the material by an iron regularly and securely folding the cloth to the desired size. To do this the guide is preferably detached from its securing bar. The guide is then secured to its bar and arranged over the cloth of the gar- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Serial No. 379,152.

ment or the like to which the band is to be stitched. The edge guides are then set so as to guide the band to bring the edge or other part desired to be stitched under the foot bar and the needle.

I/Vhen it is desired to make a band separate from a garment after folding the guide is set first to bring one edge under the needle, then it is set to bring the next, and so on according to the number of rows of stitches required.

On the drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the attachment. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a side view. Fig. 4 is a plan of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the attachment secured on a machine. and stitching the strapping to a garment. Fig. 6 shows the guide portion of the attachment separate as used for folding the strapping. Fig. 7 is a sectional view, showing the upper and lower bars of the folding device set at a slight angle.

a is the guide consisting of two bars arranged so that the openimg or way through the guide is taper in cross section. The guide carries a pair of edge guides b sliding in slots 0 and having thumb screw or like meansfor securing them at any desired position. The guide a is detachably connected to a crank bar (1 clipped to the foot bar of the machine. The clip may be of an convenient form so as to be readily fixed, the one shown comprising a detachable side 6, and a fixed side f, with binding screws g. The clip is secured in a slot 7b in the cranked bar so as to be capable of adjustment to suit different machines.

In use in folding the material into lengths of strapping, the guide a is detached from the crank bar d and the front edge of the material is folded and fed into it between the edge guides, b, which are adjusted to the width required. The guide a is then pushed along the material by an iron as clearly shown at Fig. 6 and as it passes along it folds the material into a length of strapping ready for stitching to a garment or for being stitched to form a band.

In stitching the strapping thus formed to the garment the guide is attached to the crank bard and the garment arranged in correct position under the foot bar of the machine and thus under the attachment. The edge guides b are then arranged at a place along the guide to lead the particular edge of the strapping to be stitched under the nee- Yes dle as shown at Fig. 5. The pieces or edge guides b will then be adjusted to bring the other edge of the strapping under the needle and so on according to the number of rows of stitches required.

Obviously, if required, the strapping may alone be stitched thus forming a band and in this way above described any number of rows of stitches may be obtained. With this attachment in use bands of various widths can be made and stitched to garments with much greater ease than hitherto while a very great saving in time is effected.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a sewing machine, a separable device for folding material ready for stitching to garments, comprising a lower bar connected at one end to an upper slotted bar set above and at a slight angle thereto, a pair of edge guides between said bars with screws working through the slot ofthe upper bar, the said device being adapted for setting to fold the material to the distance between the edge guides when pushed along same by an 11011.

2. In a sewing machine, a separable folding device, having upper and lower bars set at a slight angle, and connected at one end, a pair of adjustable edge guides working in the bars adapted for folding material when pushed along same, and a single crank and a clip for attaching said folding device to the foot-bar of the sewing machine.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY NASH LEE.

Witnesses:

F. G. BRETTELL, STANLEY BANNER. 

